Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passing Buck. Driving through the green, rolling Piedmont country of Taliaferro County, a visitor can go for miles without meeting another car. The county seat of Crawfordville (pop. 786) proudly preserves the house of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting...
Says one Georgia expert on industrial development: "My guess is that unless some young buck gets his back up over the situation and takes the rest of the people along with him, Taliaferro is going to keep on going downhill." But nearly all the young bucks have headed for the city. "I love Crawfordville," says J. Paul Ellington Jr., a dry-goods dealer. "I was born a block and a half away from this store. But if the population drops anymore, there's nothing for me to do but follow the others...
...damn thing's a female"). But one of his most memorable triumphs occurred in the lion house of New York's Bronx Zoo. There one spring day he roared at a hungry and puzzled lion until the beast let out a howl "like something out of Frank Buck...
Ecclesiastical diplomacy bore fruit last week, and with it a massive new area was added to the ecumenical movement's ever-widening embrace. At the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, chairman of the World Council's central committee (and president of the United Lutheran Church in America), announced that the Russian Orthodox Church has applied for membership...
Smith and Bob Schwartzman, who lost to the Williams duo of Clyde Buck and Bruce Brian Wednesday, will play at number two for the varsity, while Walter and Martin fill the third slot...